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• the stereoselectivity principle is a general rule in biology rather than an exception, often only one of the components of a racemic mixture (the “eutomer”) is the active drug while the other one, that is not complementary to the receptor (the “distomer”), is poorly active, or inactive if not even an antagonist.
• the C-4 carbon atom of 1,4-dihydropyridines (see figure 1) is a prochiral atom.
• the C-4 carbon atom is chiral and the compounds are racemates.
• Nifedipine (dimethyl, 2,6-dimethyl-4-(2-nitrophenyl) 1,4-dihydropyridine-3,5-dicarboxylate) is a symmetrical molecule while many other drugs (for ex. nitrendipine, nimodipine, nisoldipine, nicardipine, niludipine, felodipine, isradipine, ryodipine, Fr 24235, amlodipine and nivaldipine) are chiral 1,4-dihydropyridines that have been used in mammalians and humans as racemates; some of them are already marketed.
• tert-butyl esters have been introduced as precursors of the carboxy group of racemic 1,4-dihydropyridines; tert-butyl esters may be selectively cleaved by reaction with trialkyl silyl iodides (JP Pat. Appln. 1161-263).
• the procedure is particularly convenient in the absence of other ether and/or thioether groups that could be simultaneously cleaved, when present.
• Alternative procedures involve the synthesis of diasteroisomeric mixtures of optically active 1,4-dihydropyridines, wherein one of the carboxy groups is esterified by an optically active alcohol.
• EP 273349 discloses a resolution process comprising the salification with optically active bases of racemic 1,4-(1H)-dihydropyridines carrying a free carboxy group that were presumably obtained by direct Hantzsch synthesis, whose compatibility with the used reagents and esterification methods has to be clarified.
• the present invention discloses a process for the optical resolution of asymmetrical polysubstituted" 1,4-dihydropyridines, wherein one of the substituents includes one isothioureido moiety, which process comprising: a) salification of the isothioureido moiety with chiral acids;
• the present invention discloses a resolution process using isothioureido groups as suitable resolution and salification centers.
• Two previous known examples of optically active isothiouronium salts involve a resolution process comprising the exchange reaction between salts of optically active carboxylic acids and those of racemic isothiouronium salts with achiral acids and fractional crystallization of the diastereoisomeric mixture (Monatsh. Chem. 87 , 346, 1956 and Chemica Scripta 20 , 32 1982).
• protic solvent helps the exchange reaction between ionic species but it often makes crystallization of diastereoisomeric salts difficult;
• an excess of basic salts may cause the base-catalyzed cleavage of isothiouronium salts so as to release thiols and thiourea or salts thereof;
• the present invention provides simple and economic methods for the optical resolution comprising the direct reaction of new isothioureas, as free bases, with conventional chiral acids.
• the advantages of the present process are even more surprising in that, till now, said isothioureas were unknown compounds a ⁇ d thought to be poorly stable and then unsuitable for their use in a resolution process.
• the process of the present invention avoids the use of salts of resolving acid that should be prepared "ad hoc", when not commercially available.
• the method of the present invention provides also very high yields of enantiomers of high optical purity.
• the overall process may be performed in an one-step procedure without isolating racemic isothioureas, as crystalline intermediates.
• the process of the invention is particularly flexible and adaptable to different synthetic procedures.
• an isothioureido group is present in the molecule, independently on its position on the 1,4-dihydropyridine ring.
• an alkyliso thioureido group is preferably linked to the 2- (or 6-) carbon atom of the 1,4-dihydropyridine ring; said group may be transformed into other groups characterizing many of the known racemic dihydropyridines.
• the present invention relates to the preparation of enantiomers of formula I:
• R 3 is a free or esterified carboxy group (-CO 2 R 31 );
• R 4 is a member selected from the group consisting of:
• R 6 is (C 1 -C 6 ) -alkyl, (C 1 -C 4 )-halo-alkyl, -CHO, -C ⁇ N, a carboxyester (-CO 2 R 33 ), an acetal -CH(OR 61 ) (OR 62 ) or a linear or cyclic thioacetal -CH(SR 61 ) (SR 62 );
• R 2 is a member selected from the group consisting of:
• R 21 , R 22 and R 23 are independently selected from hydrogen, (C 1 -C 4 )-alkyl, phenyl- (C 1 -C 4 )-alkyl or (C 1 -C 4 )-acyl, or R 21 and R 22 taken together with the carbon atom to which they are linked to form a group -(CH 2 ) m - wherein m is an integer 2 to 4;
• R 24 and R 25 are independently hydrogen, (C 1 -C 4 )-alkyl, phenyl(C 1 -C 4 ) -alkyl, cyano-(C 1 -C 4 )-alkyl, (C 1 -C 4 )-alkoxycarbonyl-(C 1 -C 4 ) -alkyl, benzoyl, (C 1 -C 4 -acyl);
• R 26 and R 27 are a (C 1 -C 6 )-alkyl or aryl-(C 1 -C 6 )-alkyl group;
• R 31 , R 32 , R 33 and R 34 are selected from (C 1 -C 4 ) -alkyl, (C 1 -C 3 ) -alkoxy-(C 1 -C 4 )- alkyl, (C 2 -C 6 ) -alkenyl or phenyl- (C 2 -C 6 )-alkenyl, mono-, di- or tri-halo-alkyl;
• R 51 is a (C 1 -C 4 ) -alkyl , (C 1 -C 3 ) -alkoxy- (C 1 -C 4 ) -alkyl , aryl or aryl- (C 1 -C 4 ) -alkyl ;
• R 52 is a (C 1 -C 4 ) -alkyl or phenyl
• R 61 and R 62 may be (C 1 -C 4 )-alkyl or phenyl- (C 1 -C 4 )-alkyl, and each of OR 61 , OR 62 , SR 61 or SR 62 , taken together with the carbon atom to which they are linked, form respectively a 1,3-dioxolane or a 1,3-dithiolane ring, which may be optionally substituted by (C 1 -C 3 )-alkyl or halo-(C 1 -C 3 )-alkyl;
• Y (-) is a monovalent anion selected from chlorine, bromine, iodine and BF 4 -(-);
• (C 1 -C 24 )acyl is the residue of an aliphatic, aromatic, cycloaliphatic, arylaliphatic, heterocyclic, heteroaliphatic and heteroarylaliphatic carboxylic acid;
• n is an integer 1 to 4.
• the phenyl ring is preferably substituted by one to three substituents, independently selected from halogen (F, Cl, Br, I), nitro, cyano, -CF 3 , -CC 13 , mono- or polyfluoroalkyl (1 to 5 C-atoms), formyl, (C 1 -C 4 )-alkyl, (C 1 -C 4 )-alkoxy, phenoxy, OCH 2 F, OCF 3 , mono- or polyfluoroalkylthio (1 to 5 C-atoms), alkylsulphinyl (1 to 5 C-atoms), -CONH 2 , -SO 2 NH 2 , -SO 2 NH- (C 1 -C 4 )-alkyl, azido, (C 1 -C 4 ) -alkylthio, (C 1 -C 6 ) -acyla
• substituents independently selected from halogen (F, Cl, Br, I), nitro, cyano, -
• the substituted 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring of R 2 and R 4 may be substituted by one to three substituents independently selected from the group consisting of phenyl-(C 1 -C 4 )-alkyl, (C 2 -C 4 ) -alkenyl, (C 2 -C 4 ) -alkynyl, (C 1 -C 4 )-alkylthio, (C 1 -C 4 )-alkoxy, -COR 31 , C ⁇ N, -CONH 2 , amino, mono-(C 1 -C 4 )-alkylamino, di-(C 1 -C 4 )-alkylamino, Cl, Br, F, I, mono- or polyfluoro (C 1 -C 5 )-alkyl, nitro, azido, (C 1 -C 4 )-acylamino, (C 1 -C 4 ) -alkyl sulfonylamino, phen
• the enantiomers of formula I are prepared by a process comprising:
• R 21 , R 22 , R 23 , R 4 , R 6 and n are as above defined, R 3 ' and R 5 ' are the same as the above specified R 3 and R 5 , with the proviso that a free carboxy group is excluded;
• R 3 ', R 4 , R 5 ', R 6 , R 21 R 22 R 23 and n are as above defined, and, if desired, said free base is then transformed into other isothiouronium salts by treatment with achiral acids;
• a further peculiar embodiment of the present invention is a method for preparing a pure enantiomer of formula I from a racemic compound of formula I' wherein R 3 and R 5 are carboxyester groups different from each other so as to make possible their selective, independent cleavage, and -(CH 2 ) n -A and R 6 are the same groups or one of them can be transformed into the other one.
• Step by step, selective and differentiated cleavage of one of the two R 3 and R 5 ester groups yields a mono carboxylic acid that can then be esterified again (or optionally transformed into an amide -CO-NH-R 51 ) according to different sequences so that an enantiomer may be transformed into the opposite one.
• Diastereoisomeric mixtures of salts and/or amides can be obtained by treatment of a racemic isothiourea of formula II with chiral enantiomeric acids. These mixtures are then subjected to optical resolution processes based, for instance, on separation of diastereoisomers by crystallization, distillation, filtration, extraction, thin layer chromatography and/or by high, low or room pressure chromatography on inert or chiral supports, using known procedures, including the crystallization of diastereoisomeric mixtures from enantiomerically pure chiral solvents.
• the preferred resolution technique of a racemate of formula II comprises the salification of said racemate with an enantiomerically pure chiral acid HB* to form a diastereoisomeric mixture of isothiouronium salts of formula (II.HB*) that is then separated into the single , diastereoisomerically pure, salts of formulae (Ia 1 .HB*) and (Ia 2 .HB*), respectively.
• This separation is preferably carried out by fractional crystallization, in solvents such as: water, (C 1 -C 5 )-alcohol, (C 1 -C 3 )-alkyl acetates and/or formates (ethyl acetate), cycloaliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbons, (cyclohexane, benzene, toluene, o-, m-, p-xylene;) ethers (tetrahydrofuran, dimethoxyethane, 1,4-dioxane, methylale, diethylether); ketones, (acetone and methylethylketone); amides (formamide, N,N-dimethylformamide, N-methylpyrrolidone), sulph ⁇ xides (dimethylsulphoxide) and the like or mixtures thereof.
• solvents such as: water, (C 1 -C 5 )-alcohol, (C 1 -C 3 )-al
• the preferred enantiomerically pure chiral acids HB* are those allowing the best possible resolution process with the minimum number of recrystallizations.
• Suitable examples of said acids are: camphoric, mandelic, abietic, 3-bromo-campho-10-sulphonic acids; tartaric acid and its 0,0'-diesters, such as 0,0'-dibenzoyltartaric or 0,0'-di-p-tolyltartaric; malic acids and the esters thereof, ⁇ -methoxy-phenylacetic acid, ⁇ -methoxy- ⁇ -trifluoromethyl-phenylacetic acid; ⁇ -aminoacids and amides thereof, such as alanine, proline, phenylglycine, phenylalanine, threonine, cysteine, cystine, homocysteine, homocystine, aspartic and glutamic acids and amides such as: N-benzoyl, N-acetyl, N-phtaloyl, N-BOC or N-tert-butoxycarbonyl amides; or 1,3-thiazolidine-4-
• the present invention includes also the resolution agents that have not been specifically mentioned herein.
• the salification process of a racemate of formula II with an enantiomerically pure chiral acid HB* is carried out in a solute/solvent ratio ranging from 5 ml to 60 ml of solvent for 1 g of salt, at temperatures ranging from about room temperature to the reflux temperature of the solvent, to obtain complete dissolution of the reagents.
• Hot solutions are left to cool to temperatures compatible with the freezing point of the solvent in the range from -30°C to +50°C, to crystallize the less soluble diastereoisomeric salt of formula (Ia 1 HB*), that is then separated by filtration and/or centrifugation.
• the reaction is carried out at room temperature, using a solvent alone rather than a mixture of solvents.
• polybasic resolving acids HB* may be used in the range from equimolecular to equivalent amounts; equimolecular amounts are preferred.
• the mother liqt ⁇ ors from the crystallization of the less soluble diastereoisomeric salt are enriched in the pther enantiomer that, if desired, may be recovered as isothiourea free base, by treatment of said mother liquors with stoichiometrical or slightly higher amounts of bases.
• Said bases can be selected from an hydrate, bicarbonate or carbonate of an alkali or alkali-earth metal in solid form or as diluted aqueous solutions.
• neutralization is carried out by treatment with ammonia or its aqueous solutions.
• She crude enriched isothioureido enantiomer, as free base, may be subjected to resolution by salification with the opposite optical antipode of the previous HB* resolving acid.
• particularly preferred solvents are those (for example ethyl acetate, benzene and toluene), that are immiscible with water and are suitable to maintain the isothioureas dissolved as free bases in the organic phase.
• the chiral resolving acids are removed in the aqueous phase with aqueous alkaline washings that are collected and acidified to recover the chiral acids that may then be recycled.
• Enantiomerically pure isothiouronium salts of formulae (Ia 1 .HB*) and (Ia 2 .HB*) are obtained in yields ranging from 70-75 % to a value even higher than 85-90 %.
• the enantiomeric acid HB* is also recovered in high yields, 85-90 % at least.
• Transformation of an isothiouronium salt of formula (II.HB) or (Ia 1 .HB*) and/or (Ia 2 .HB*) into its isothiourea, as free base, of formula Ila, la, or Ia 2 is preferably carried out under inert gas atmosphere, at temperatures ranging from 0oC to 40°C, and preferably from 5°C to 20°C. If desired, enantiomeric isothioureas of formula la 1 or Ia 2 may be salified with achiral acids to give isothiouronium salts of formula (Ia 1 .HB) and/or (Ia 2 .HB).
• the reaction is preferably carried out by treating vigorously stirred suspensions of said isothiouronium salts in lower alcohols, for example methanol or ethanol, with aqueous solutions containing at least equimolar amounts of a base such as sodium or potassium hydroxide, bicarbonate or carbonate at 5-20°C, for a time ranging from few minutes to 12 hours.
• a base such as sodium or potassium hydroxide, bicarbonate or carbonate at 5-20°C
• the above reaction conditions are particularly mild and suitable for preparing isothioureas of high purity, in almost quantitative yields, from isothiouronium salts, even though the latter are known to be easily cleaved and converted into mercaptanes by treatment with diluted aqueous weak bases.
• a known method for the preparation of thiols involves the reaction of alkyl halides (or sulphonic esters) with thiourea or N-alkyl isothiourea to give isothiouronium salts, that are hydrolyzed to thiols by treatment with aqueous bases.
• the isothiouronium salts are quite stable to air oxydation and since they can be easily converted, they are preferred in organic synthesis and used as masked thiol groups.
• mercaptanes of formula (I) wherein A is SH may be prepared from pure enantiomeric isothiouronium salts of formula (Ia 1 .HB, Ia 1 .HB*, la 2 .HB and/or Ia 2 .HB*) by treatment with diluted aqueous bases: said thiols may then be transformed into another compound of formula (I) wherein A is -S-(C 1 -C 24 )-acyl by reaction with a suitable activated form (such as anhydride, mixed anhydride, imidazolide, chloride) of a C 1 -C 24 -aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aromatic, arylaliphatic or heteroaromatic acid, etc.
• a suitable activated form such as anhydride, mixed anhydride, imidazolide, chloride
• Racemic isothiouronium salts of formula II wherein n is the integer 1 and B is preferably chlorine or the residue of a monovalent achiral organic acid have been described in WO 8700836 and in Italian Application No. 21876 A/85 in the Applicant's name.
• A is chlorine, bromine, iodine or a sulfonate ester and R 3 , R 4 , R 5 and R 6 are as above defined, with thiourea and N-alkyl derivatives thereof, using well known methods.
• Isothiouronium salts are preferably prepared from halides or ⁇ ulfonates, melting a mixture of the solid reagents or heating their solutions in a solvent selected from dimethylformamide, N-methyl-pyrrolidone, dimethyIsulphoxide, ethanol, methanol, acetonitrile, water or mixtures thereof.
• 1,4-Dihydropyridines of formula (IV) are well-known from EP 83315, DE 2629892, Synth. Comm 16, 529, 1086 and Tethr. Lett. 29, 6335, 1988.
• Isothiouronium salts have been disclosed in EP 225175.
• Isothioureas of formulae II, Ia 1 and Ia 2 are new and are an object of the present invention together with processes for the preparation thereof.
• the preferred electrophilic species of formula R 2 - ⁇ are selected from: a diazonium salt wherein ⁇ is a diazonium group and R 2 is an aryl and/or heterqaryl radical; b) a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl halide and/or sulphonate of a suitable substituted or unsubstituted alcohol wherein R 2 is an alkyl residue as above defined containing also 3-membered heterocyclic rings such as oxyrane, thiirane, azyridine, N-(C 1 -C 6 )-alkylazyridine and ⁇ is an halogen (Cl, Br, I ) or a suitable sulfonate residue such as CH 3 SO 3 -, C 6 H 5 SO 3 -, p-methyl-C 6 H 4 SO 3 -, or camphosulfonate or trifluoromethanesulphonate (F 3 C-SO 3 ); c) a Michael acceptor where
• Said reactions of thiols or masked thiols of formula I with electrophiles are preferably carried out in the presence of bases and under inert gas atmosphere to avoid disulfide by-product formation.
• the amounts of the bases range from catalytic to stoichiometric amounts or higher when H- ⁇ acids are released during the reaction; preferably a base excess is used.
• Preferred bases are organic bases such as a tertiary amine, e.g. triethylamine, diazabicyclononene, diazabicycloundecene or an aromatic amine, e.g.
• pyridine an alkyl-substituted pyridine, tetramethyl-pyridine, or an anionic ion-exchange resin or, more preferably, an inorganic base e.g. an alkali or an alkali-earth oxide, hydroxyde, carbonate or bicarbonate or (C 1 -C 5 )-alcoholate.
• the base can be used as a solid material or in a diluted solution in media such as water, (C 1 -C 5 ) -alcohols, diioxane, tetrahydrofuran, (C 1 -C 3 )-glycols and mixtures thereof. Ammonia and its solution in the same media can also be used.
• reaction temperatures range from room temperature to the solvent reflux temperature.
• reaction times can range from few minutes to several days, but usually do not exceed a period from six to eight hours at room temperature.
• R 3 and R 5 are allyl esters, they may be selectively cleaved by "transfer hydrogenolysis" under very mild conditions by treatment with an ammonium and/or alkylammonium salt in the presence of a phosphine and a hydrogen transfer catalyst.
• Ammonium formate is the preferred salt; triphenyl and tributyl phosphine are particularly useful.
• Preferred transfer catalyst is palladium (Pd) on carbon, finely dispersed in a concentration from 2 to 15%.
• Preferred solvents are (C 1 -C 5 )-alcohols, acetonitrile and other aliphatic nitriles; ethers sufch as tetrahydrofuran, dioxane, dimethoxyethane, amides such as dimethylformamide, formamide, water and mixtures thereof.
• the reaction may be carried out at a temperature ranging from 0oC to the solvent reflux temperature in a time ranging from some minutes to several hours.
• each of these dihydropyridine acids can be transformed into another compound of formula I by esterification with a suitable alcohol, using known methods.
• R 3 and R 4 are carboxyester groups which may be selectively hydrolized (e.g. one is an allyl ester and the other one is a t-butyl or trichloroethylester) enantiomerically pure 1,4-dihydropyridines may be converted into the specular enantiomer, as shown in the above scheme, by suitable sequence of selective cleavage and reaction with appropriate alcohols, either racemic or optically pure.
• a further advantage of the present invention is the preparation of single enantiomers of diastereoisomeric dihydropyridines when, according to this procedure, enantiomeric dihydropyridines having free carboxy groups at positions " and/or 5 are reacted with optically active alcohols or amines.
• A is more preferably -SR 2 , with an excess of a (C 1 -C 6 )-alkyl halide or a phenyl-(C 1 -C 6 )-aralkyl halide or with a trialkyloxonium tetrafluoroborate of formula [(R 26 ) 2 O (+) R 27 ] BF 4 (-) being R 26 and R 27 as above defined.
• Preferred reaction conditions include the use of an excess of the selected halide in the presence or not of an inert solvent.
• Suitable solvents are dioxane, tetrahydrofuran, dimethoxyethane, an aromatic hydrocarbon such as benzene, toluene, amides such as dimethylformamide, N-methylpyrrolidone or esters such as ethyl acetate and mixtures thereof; preferred temperatures range from the room temperature to the reflux temperature of the mixture.
• Enantiomerically pure 1,4-dihydropyridines of formula I wherein A is hydrogen are obtained by reacting one of said sulphonium salts with an hydride selected from sodium, lithium, zinc or tetraalkylammonium (e.g.tetrabutylammonium) borohydride, tri-(teft-butyl) aluminium hydride, diisobutyl-aluminium hydride or lithium aluminium hydride.
• an hydride selected from sodium, lithium, zinc or tetraalkylammonium (e.g.tetrabutylammonium) borohydride, tri-(teft-butyl) aluminium hydride, diisobutyl-aluminium hydride or lithium aluminium hydride.
• Desulfuration of sulphonium salts is a very selective process that occurs under extremely mild conditions; the choice of solvent and the preferred experimental conditions depend on the selected hydride.
• Anhydrous solvents such as 1,2-dimethoxyethane, tetrahydrofuran, diethylether, dioxane, toluene and benzene or mixtures thereof are preferably used with aluminium hydrides, while in the case of borohydrides additional solvents can be conveniently used, for instance: aprotic dipolar solvents such. as
• a molar excess of the hydride is used, at a temperature from 0°C to reflux temperature.
• the use of borohydrides at room temperature, for a reaction time ranging from few min. to 4 hrs. is preferred.
• Hydride-promoted removal of the sulphonium residue occurs under particularly mild and selective conditions without affecting the 1,4-dihydropyridine, whose reactivity towards hydrides is known (see for example A. Sauvins et al., Heterocycles 27 , 291, 1988) or other possible reducible groups.
• (+) and (-) enantiomers of dimethyl-[6-methyl-5-carbomethoxy-3-carboethoxy-4-(3-nitrophenyl)-1,4-dihydropyridin-2-yl]-methyl-ethyl-sulphonium tetrafluoroborate are quantitatively desulphurated to give the corresponding crystalline (+) and (-) enantiomers of 2,6-dimethyl-3-carboethoxy-5-carbomethoxy-4-(3-nitrophenyl)-1,4-dihydropyridine by reaction with sodiumborohydride in dimethylformamide at 5-10°C.
• Anhydrous solvents used with Na/Hg amalgams include (C 1 -C 5 )-alcohols, tetrahydrofuran, 1,2-dimethoxyethane, dioxane, dimethylformamide, N-methylpyrrolidone; in the case of Ni-Raney also water and acetone or mixtures thereof can be used; the reaction temperature ranges from 40°C to the reflux temperature of the mixture.
• nitrovinyl groups of compounds of formula I are substantially inert to tt ⁇ e reductive action of desulfurating agents such as Ni-Raney or Na/Hg.
• desulfurating agents such as Ni-Raney or Na/Hg.
• the substantial stability of said nitrovinyi group is remarkable when compared with that of ortho-, meta- or para- nitro groups possibly present in the R 4 phenyl substituent that, on the contrary, are partially or completely reduced to amino groups.
• the mother liquors from the first crystallization are evaporated to dryness under vacuum.
• the residue is partitioned between AcOEt (ml 250) and 1.1 % aqueous solution of sodium bicarbonate (2-50 ml), by stirring for 1.5 hours. After separation and elimination of the aqueous phase, the organic phase is washed with brine, dried (Na 2 SO 4 ) and evaporated to dryness.
• a stirred solution of the crude residue (g 14.15) and of 0,0'-dibenzoyl-L-tartaric acid in acetonitrile (590 ml) is maintained for 6 hours at room temperature and then for a night at 4°C to separate a precipitate, that is filtered and washed with cold acetonitrile (ml 50).
• the chiral isothioureas are obtained as free bases by treatment of chiral isothiouronium salts with bases.
• sodium bicarbonate g 0.105
• a stirred suspension of the 0,0'-dibenzoyltartrate isothiouronium salt (g 1) in a biphasic water/AcOEt (1:1, 40 ml) mixture After 10 minutes the aqueous phase is separated, washed with AcOEt (2 ⁇ 5 ml) and discarded. The organic phases are combined, washed with 5% aqueous NaHCO 3 solution (2 ⁇ 5 ml) and dried.
• a KHCO 3 (g 106.3) aqueous solution (1100 ml) and 28% aqueous ammonia (35 ml) are added to a stirred suspension of ( ⁇ )-S-[(6-methyl-5-carbomethoxy-3-carboethoxy-4-(3-nitrophenyl)-1,4-dihydropyridin-2-yl)methyl]-isothiouronium chloride (g 500) in AcOEt (5000 ml) cooled at +35°C. 30 Minutes after, the organic phase is separated, washed with brine (2 ⁇ 800 ml), dried on Na 2 SO 4 (g 400) and filtered.
• Powdered KHCO 3 (g 17) and water (ml 280) are added to a stirred suspension of: ( ⁇ )-S-[(6-methyl-5-nitro-4 -(3-nitrophenyl)-3-carboethoxy-1,4-dihydropyridin-2-yl)-methyl]isothiouronium chloride (g 70) in EtOH (ml 280), cooled at +10/+20°C.
• the first mother liquors are evaporated to dryness, the crude residue (g 53) is treated in EtOH (ml 200) with KHCO 3 (g 10.5) and water (ml 300) to separate g 35.2 of a solid material that is dissolved in a solution of D-(-)-mandelic acid (g 13.3) in acetonitrile (ml 390). After a night at 4°C, the solid obtained (g 36.7; m.p.
• the 1,2-dichloroethane mother liquors are treated with a 5% aqueous solution of NaHCO 3 (2 ⁇ 100 ml), water (2 ⁇ 50 ml), dried on Na 2 SO 4 , combined with 0,0'-dibenzoyl-L-tartaric acid (g 21.3) and then evaporated to dryness under vacuum.
• the aqueous' phase is reextracted with AcOEt (2 ⁇ 30 ml) and eliminated.
• the organic phases are combined, washed with NaHCO 3 (saturated solution 2 ⁇ 50 ml), dried (Na 2 SO 4 ) and then evaporated to dryness in the presence of SiO 2 (g 15).
• the residue is eluted through a chromatographic column (SiO 2 g 60), using MeOH/CHCl 3 10/90 as eluent.
• the eluted fractions, containing 'the desired amine, are combined and after addition of fumaric acid (g 0.6) are evaporated to dryness under vacuum.
• a solution of 1-formylimidazole (prepared reacting carbonyldiimidazole, g 3.3, with formic acid, ml 0.80 at 0°C, in THF (ml 30)) is added dropwise to a solution in dry THF (ml 15) cooled at 0°C of (-)-2-[(1,4,5,6-tetrahydropyrimidin-2-yl)thio]methyl]-3,5-dicarboethoxy-4-(3-nitrophenyl)-6-methyl-1,4-dihydropyridine (g 5.1; free base, isolated from the mandelate salt by treatment with AcOEt/aqueous Na 2 CO 3 ).
• a solvent selected from the group of benzene, toluene, 1,2-dichloroethane, methylene chloride, ethyl acetate, a base selected from the group of K 2 CO 3 , Na 2 CO 3 , KOH and NaOH and a "phase transfer" catalyst selected from the group of tetrabutylammonium bromide, benzyltriethylammonium chloride, benzyltriethylammonium bromide, dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide, hexadecyltrimethylammonium chloride and hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide, by reaction of a suitable electrophilic reagent (selected in the group of alkyl halide and sulphate or sulphonate, diazonium salts and of a Michael acceptor, such as ⁇ - and ⁇ - unsaturated esters, ketones and/
• a solution of sulphonium salts of examples 26 and 27 (for instance a stirred solution of (+)-S-methylbenzyl-[6-methyl-5-nitro-3-carboethoxy-4-(1,4-benzodioxan-5-yl)-1,4-dihydropyridin-2-yl]-methylsulphonium tetrafluoborate (g 1.8) in DMSO (ml 16), cooled at 5-10°C, is treated with 0.15 g of sodium borohydride added at small portions. The solution at room temperature is stirred for further 15 minutes , diluted with water (ml 100) and extracted with AcOEt (3 ⁇ 30 ml).
• the above compounds are then transformed into an activated form of said carboxylic acids (mixed anhydrides, chlorides, imidazolides, hydroxysuccinimide esters) and then reacted with a suitable primary and/or secondary amine and/or with a suitable alcohol to obtain amides and esters of said acids.
• carboxylic acids mixtureed anhydrides, chlorides, imidazolides, hydroxysuccinimide esters
• the combined organic extracts are washed with agueous sodium carbonate (1N; 3 ⁇ 10 1), the basic washings are collected, acidified to pH 5-6 with diluted aqueous hydrochloric acid.
• the resulting suspension is extracted with ethyl acetate (2 ⁇ 25 ml) the combined organic extracts are dried on Na 2 SO 4 and evaporated under reduced pressure to give mg 160 of 5-carboxy-2-methylthiomethyl-6-methyl-4-(3-nitrophenyl)-3 -carboethoxy-1,4-dihydropyridine as an amorphous solid.
• (+) tertbutyl, allyl 2, 6-dimethyl-4-phenyl-1,4-dihydropyridine-3,5-dicarboxylate is treated in dioxane with 10% Pd on C, ammonium formate and triphenylphospine to give (+)-tertbutyl 2,6-dimethyl-4-phenyl-5-carboxy-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylate.
• (+) tertbutyl-2,6-dimethyl-4-phenyl-5-carboxy-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylate is reacted with an ethereal solution of diazomethane to give a sample of (+) tertbutyl,methyl 2,6-dimethyl-4-phenyl-1,4-dihydro ⁇ yridine-3,5-carboxylate.
• a stirred solution of said diester 1.5 g
• chloroform 15 ml
• a chloroform (4 ml) solution of trimethylsilyl iodide 0.53 ml

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